Re: Single user mode

Andy Walden (andy@netimagination.com)
Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:22:44 -0600

George B. Winston IV wrote:
>
> Sorry for the lame question, but I think my system was hacked and all
> of the passwords changed. I can't even log-in as root.
>
> Is it possible to boot in single user mode and change root's
> password? If so, How do you boot in single user mode and change
> root's password.

Get a boot disk and when prompted at first mount your partition with
soemthing like

mount root=/dev/hda1

or whatever partition your root filesystem is on.

andy